Today, weaving with the use of multi-colored rubber bands is a very fashionable occupation. Original crafts can be represented not only by various jewelry from bracelets to ringlets, but also by animal figures and even doll clothes.
What can weave from elastic bands?
For an example, it will be described below how to make a strawberry berry - a variant of a figure made of elastic bands. Before you sit down for weaving, you need to purchase:
- gum red;
- green rubber bands;
- Crochet hook.
Step-by-step instruction
On the crochet hook you need to wind the red rubber band, having made 3 turns. Then stretch a couple of rubber bands of the same color through the one on the hook.
At the end of the hook, make loops from the stretched elastic, and then stretch through them the materials already available on the hook. This must be done at least five times. At the end of the work, it remains to put the lower loops on the hook.
Then for the figure from the rubber bands you will need a couple more red rubber bands, they stretch through the ones on the hook and weaving continues. The previous operation is repeated at least four times. After the gum is on the hook, you get a finished strawberry.
It remains to make a wonderful piece of paper crafts. Here you will need green gum. One of them twists four times and through it stretches two more rubber bands, also green. On the hook you will need to make three such blanks.
At the last stage, the green gum stretches through the leaves and the berry itself. It remains only to remove the craft and fill the gum so that they do not stick out. This part of the article told how to weave a figure out of gum.
What else can weave crafts?
As mentioned above, not only jewelry can be made from gum. The next part of the article will describe how to make a funny bee. For work, you will need yellow, black and white rubber bands, as well as a crochet hook.
Step-by-step instruction
Here, fingers of one's own hand will be used for work. A black elastic band is put on the index and middle finger, which is twisted into a figure eight. Then, yellow elastic bands are put on over, but without twisting.
In the next step, you need to drop the figure eight into the central part of the future crafts, and put black elastic bands on the fingers in the amount of two pieces. Then the yellow ones are dumped. It is necessary to alternate the rubber bands of black and yellow until the bee acquires the desired size.
Once the craft is ready, you will need to put all the gum on the index finger, and then transfer the craft to the crochet hook.
To make a bee a mustache, you need a white-black gum or pimples. She reaches through the rubber bands, which are located on the hook. The elastic is knitted, tightened and cut in half so that the toy has two antennae.
At the last stage, a pair of white gum is threaded through the body of the bee, one must be located higher, the other a little lower, to make wings. So, the craft is ready.
An easy way to make a bracelet
There are a huge number of different patterns of weaving original bracelets. More complex options require special tools, such as a slingshot or a machine, but you can do it with your own fingers. To work, you need gum in two colors.
How to weave?
The gum of the selected color is placed on the index and middle finger, while it needs to be twisted so that it turns eight.
Then a couple more elastic bands are added, also twisted. The middle and lower gum are interchanged, but you do not need to remove them. The upper gum is thrown into the central part of the future jewelry.
Then another elastic band is put on, but it is not necessary to twist it, and then the lower elastic band is thrown off in the center. It is necessary to continue weaving until the moment the jewelry becomes the right size.
The article told how to make bracelets and figures from rubber bands.